Geothermal power plant in Michoacan, Mexico. Approximate location 19.791, -100.6669.
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Los Azufres is a 225 MW geothermal power station in Michoacan, Mexico. It is operated by CFE. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 422,357 homes (estimated). It ranks #106 of 335 Mexico power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, the national grid averages 474 gCO₂/kWh (25.9% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id MEX0001870.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by CFE. All plants by this company →
This geothermal plant taps underground heat to raise steam that drives a turbine. It sits in a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 19.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 46% below the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.
Climate heat-demand index: 31/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.
Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.
The #2 largest geothermal power plant of 5 in Mexico by capacity.
Mexico has 5 geothermal power plants in this dataset, together about 904 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 19.791, -100.6669 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
